Twitter And Gender
6/2/09
Business Week: New research reveals different patterns of Twitter use for men and women.

Suspect Charged In Slaying Of Abortion Provider George Tiller
6/3/09
LA Times: Prosecutors on Tuesday formally charged Scott Roeder, a 51-year-old with ties to right-wing militia groups, with murder for allegedly killing prominent abortion doctor George Tiller.

‘Untouchable’ Elected India’s First Woman Speaker
6/3/09
AFP: India’s parliament elected on Wednesday its first woman speaker, who is also a member of the low-caste Dalit community, an event hailed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a “historic occasion”.

Has Woman-Bashing Become An American Pastime?
6/3/09
Diversity Inc.: Whether dubbed a bitch or an airhead, described as menstrual or post-menopausal, any woman who manages to make her way to political power seems guaranteed one thing: to get her name smeared in public.

Gingrich Takes Back Sotomayor “Racism” Comment
6/3/09
Huffington Post: Newt Gingrich is not known for his verbal self-restraint. But even he thinks he went too far when he called Judge Sonia Sotomayor a racist in a Twitter post.

Sotomayor Buzz, Week Two: Media Sexism Times Ten
6/2/09
Women’s Voices for Change: Everybody’s saying she was chosen because she’s both a woman and Hispanic. Nobody’s mentioning that she went to Princeton, where she graduated Summa cum Laude, and that from there she went to Yale Law, where she made the Law Review.

Bill Proposes Immigration Rights For Gay Couples
6/2/09
NY Times: Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Democrat from Vermont who is the powerful chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has offered a bill that would allow American citizens and legal immigrants to seek residency in the United States for their same-sex partners, just as spouses now petition for foreign-born husbands and wives.

In Memoriam George Tiller
5/31/09
Medecine and Social Justice: George Tiller was murdered today. In church. His church. While serving as an usher at Reformation Lutheran Church. In Wichita, KS. His town. Presumably by a believer in the “right to life”. Cowardice doesn’t begin to describe it. Outrage cannot begin to describe our feelings.

Beware ‘Lone Nut’ Theory In Tiller’s Murder
6/2/09
Women’s E-News: Dr. George Tiller’s murder in church is part of this country’s 30-year history of antiabortion bombings, arsons and assassinations. For that reason, Frederick Clarkson doubts the killer acted alone. But proving it may be difficult, if not impossible.

Patients Remember Dr.Tiller
6/1/09
Femininste: A few blog posts and comments from Dr. Tiller’s former patient

Women Bridging Gap In Science Opportunities
6/2/09
NY Times: The prospects for women who are scientists and engineers at major research universities have improved, although women continue to face inequalities in salary and access to some other resources, a panel of the National Research Council concludes in a new report.

Candidates In Iran Eye Votes Of Women
6/3/09
The Age: IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad saluted the role of his mother and wife in his life, as rival candidates for the Iranian presidency made the pursuit of women’s votes a big feature of their campaigns.

Women Win In Kuwait
6/2/09
NY Times: It’s wonderful to see the power of women put the fear of God into countries. At least that’s how I like to explain Saudi Arabia’s decision to delay municipal elections for two years. Kuwaiti women…four of whom made history on May 17 by winning seats in their country’s parliamentary elections.

U.N. Women Peacekeepers In Short Supply
6/2/09
IPS: Even as U.N. peacekeeping operations in the world’s battle zones continue to expand, women soldiers, police and civilian support staff remain a small minority – something that sorely needs to change, U.N. officials say.

Liberian Women Recommend Punishment For “Warlords”
6/2/09
The Liberian Journal: Women groupings under the Women NGO’s Secretariat of Liberia (WONGOSOL) have reached a broad consensus on the need to punish heads of the former warring factions and “warlords” in the 14-year Liberian civil conflict.

Cameroon: Bringing Rape Out Of The Shadows
6/2/09
All Africa: Yaounde — Talk openly about rape. That is the gist of a new campaign in Cameroon, where according to a study an estimated 432,000 women and girls have been raped in the past 20 years.

Aging: Menopause Slows The Brain, Temporarily
6/1/09
NY Times: Many women entering menopause say their brains do not seem to work as well as they used to. A new study suggests that they may be right, but it also appears the lapses are temporary.

Dear Pixar, From All The Girls With Band-Aids On Their Knees
6/1/09
NPR: I want so much for girls to have a movie like “Up” that is about someone they can dress up as for Halloween. Not a girl who’s a side dish, but a girl who’s the big draw. And I’d really, really like it not to be a princess.

When Women Blew Up American Poetry
6/3/09
DoubleX: Remembering the fractious heiresses of Sylvia Plath.

Huskies Claim First NCAA Softball Title
6/3/09
ESPN via AP: Home-field advantage. Who needs that? For Washington’s softball team, the road led to a national championship. After three weeks away from home, the Huskies are heading back to the Pacific Northwest with a trophy.

What A Season We Should Be In For
6/2/09
ESPN: This really is a special season for the [WNBA] league. It’s a season for the historical record. It’s the last hurrah for some of the greats of the game, such as Lisa Leslie and Yolanda Griffith — one more chance for the young, rising stars to play side-by-side with them or against them.